Enlisted on 3 August 1861 at Fort Wayne, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; he was residing at Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan prior to enlistment at 20 years of age; mustered in on 28 August 1861, Company D, Michigan 5th Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; wounded on 2 July 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg (shot in the left knee); mustered out on 11 September 1863 dying of wound complications in Letterman General Hospital. This tented "hospital" was established near the battlefied at Gettysburg to treat the many wounded.
Enlisted on 3 August 1861 at Fort Wayne, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; he was residing at Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan prior to enlistment at 20 years of age; mustered in on 28 August 1861, Company D, Michigan 5th Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; wounded on 2 July 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg (shot in the left knee); mustered out on 11 September 1863 dying of wound complications in Letterman General Hospital. This tented "hospital" was established near the battlefied at Gettysburg to treat the many wounded.
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Frank Anderson
PVT Co D 5 Mich Inf
Civil War
1841 1863
